Originally Posted by
therapysession
I agree to extent with what was said. With that I'll say, I don't want the 5 hours or the vacation day, I want competence. I want to pull into a gate on a "scheduled" flight with an acars in range followed by an ops radio call on the ground to find that I actually do have wing walkers, AND a jetway driver, AND wheel chairs. Not a constant barrage of apologies to the passengers.
Nothing more demoralizing than making up time leg after leg to only be delayed leg after leg. While I agree that being compensated for it is nice, that doesn't negate the fact that it needs to get fixed. Fire someone for taking a 2 dollar mini but we will pay 5 hours and bonus vacation days, plus the fuel to sit and wait for said wing walkers.... I'd rather things just went smoothly than to get paid more.
Dont get me wrong - I LOATHE incompetence.
But we work for the sloppy version of Wal Mart. Maybe not even that - more like Family Dollar. It didn’t used to be this way but it is now. I certainly WANT us to be better, but when someone shows you who they are time and time again, believe them!